{"id":122143,"date":"2022-09-15T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liv-golf-convinced-cameron-smith-and-marc-leishman-to-join-saudi-backed-series-with-stake-in-franchise"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T14:35:00","slug":"liv-golf-convinced-cameron-smith-and-marc-leishman-to-join-saudi-backed-series-with-stake-in-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liv-golf-convinced-cameron-smith-and-marc-leishman-to-join-saudi-backed-series-with-stake-in-franchise","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf convinced Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman to join Saudi-backed series with stake in franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman were given more than just a nice paycheck to leave the PGA Tour for LIV.The Australian golfers received a 25 percent stake in the Punch GC franchise, LIV CEO Greg Norman told The Sydney Morning Herald this week. Smith, the 2022 Open Championship winner, is the first top-10 player to join the Saudi-backed golf series. LIV also reportedly paid Smith upwards of $100 million as well.&#8221;You&#8217;ve got to think about it from Cam&#8217;s perspective, he completely understood one thing that other people are struggling to understand: the value LIV Golf brings, and that new value is the franchise,&#8221; Norman said. &#8220;&#8230; [Smith] sees the market that Australia presents and the market which, quite honestly, has been starved of high-quality players and new value for the game of golf. The Presidents Cup comes in there once every seven to 10 years, sucks the economy dry and then disappears.&#8221;Bringing Smith and Leishman into the fold appears to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman were given more than just a nice paycheck to leave the PGA Tour for LIV. The Australian golfers received a 25 percent stake in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,1],"tags":[206,58],"class_list":["post-122143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","category-news","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}